Quarterly Report February 2026

(Nov 18, 2025-Feb 2026)

Official / General

  • State License Renewal has been submitted/received. (Dept of Agriculture)
  • Sharon resigned from the board and as Secretary on January 18, 2026

Financials:

  • HRN’s books are closed for December 31, 2025 and the records and schedules necessary for our tax accountants to prepare financial statements and tax returns have been submitted as of January 16th.
  • Draft financial statements and tax returns should be available for review in the next week or so.
  • Tax Form 3ABC (Return of Property Held for Charitable Purposes) was filed with the Town of Westford on 2/23/26. This annual filing due by 3/1/2026 exempts HRN from having to pay real estate taxes on the shelter and personal property tax on its furniture and equipment.
  • Opened bank accounts with Northern Bank and Rockland Trust.

Adoptions

76 adoption as of Feb 24, 2026

Fundraisers

$2820 Lollapalooza (Jan 2026)

$2275 Data with a Shelter Bunny (Feb 2026)

$44,495 Giving Tuesday on Zeffy

$43,023  Match by CT for Giving Tuesday

$5000 2026 Calendars- we sold 323

Services (Spa Days, Bunsitting, Bonding)

Spa Days & Nail-trim clinics

$1080 Boston Spa Day Feb 14

$1770 Westford Spa Day Jan 31

$1440 Westford Spa Dec 13

Bunsitting (as of 02/24/2026)

  • 95 paid requests for this quarter totaling $23,905 ($21,230 same quarter last year)
  • 26 requests scheduled through August 2026 
  • 6 requests currently open
  • 6 bunsitter discounts were given totaling 37 days
  • 4 new sitters were onboarded and 12 were removed from the group, for a net loss of 8 sitters this quarter. Many requests sit unfilled for several days/weeks and reminders are sent to the group. Bunsitting can always use more help.
  • An automatic email was recently set up that gets activated when a new request is received by the bunsitting email account. This will hopefully limit bunsitting request inquiries sent to the hotline and info email account.

Bonding  (as of 2/24/2026) 

  • 3 virtual consultations and 1 shelter consultation totaling $140 (45 minute in-shelter consultations are now being offered for $65) 
  • 8 in-person bondings totaling $3280. Breakdown: 4 successfully bonded pairs, 3 went home partially bonded and were given tips to help at home, 1 unsuccessful bond
  • Bonding is not accepting new in person bonding requests at this time. 2 of 3 volunteers are unavailable for the foreseeable future and the other volunteer has a 2 client waitlist. Those 2 clients put their bondings on hold temporarily
  • The next Bond-a-Thon is scheduled for 3/7 (25 total slots with 5 currently filled) 

Grants

We need to spend the Graham Grant money by Mar 30. We will be purchasing several items for the clinic in the next few weeks. 

Monthly Donations

Condo Sponsorships: There are currently 23 monthly donors at $50 each and 4 monthly donors at $100 each for a total of $1550 / month. 

Medical Bill Sponsors: These are announced and promoted through social media storytelling as well as our newsletters. We continue to share updated stories with the donation links to meet our goals. 

Subscriptions- Not counting the condo sponsorships

Monthly  

$1444 each month $659 (Zeffy) $785 (Wix)

Break out:

3 for $100 / month 

1Z 3W  for $50 / month 

1 for $40 / month

1 for $35 / month

3Z +  9W for  $25 / month

2 for $20 / month

9Z + 11W for $10 / month 

5 for $5 / month

1 for $4 / month 

Shelter 

  • We hired a Shelter Manager, but she left after 7 weeks. It was not a good fit.
  • Training our current 3 employees on many tasks- they are taking over training new volunteers, intakes and donations. 
  • All three shelter employees are doing well.

Clinic

  • We are holding regular wellness days for our shelter & foster bunnies
  • We have set up vendor accounts and purchased medications to make treating our rabbits easier
  • Working on purchasing equipment- many items have been identified, searching for good pricing.

Foster Homes 

  • Hosting another in person Foster Home Workshop on March 14, after spa day at the new location in Watertown.  Hoping to reach some of the foster homes not near the shelter
  • We have another mandatory protocol meeting scheduled for mid April

Hotline

  • Everything is running smoothly on the hotline. We’ve had a new addition: 
    • Molly A. started in January
  • Kayla is taking a break to focus on managing the shelter volunteers and I am filling in on her day. We are still well-staffed and do not currently need anyone else.

Outreach, Volunteering & Events

    • Upcoming events: 
  • Volunteers: 
  • Other outreach:

Intra-Meeting Board Decisions

Board decided Feb 1, 2026 to give a raise to our 3 shelter staff.